According to the Science and Technology Daily, from August 18th to 22nd, the ninth Arctic expedition team organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources completed the highlight of the expedition – a successful unmanned ice station system was deployed in the Arctic Ocean. This set of unmanned ice stations includes two prototypes, A and B.
It is understood that the unmanned ice station deployed this time is called the 'Arctic Sea-ice-air unmanned ice station observing system', which is the key project of the '13th Five-Year National Key R&D Program', the polar environment observation/detection technology and A research and development project for the R&D project.
'Unlike the past, the unmanned ice station system is expected to achieve unattended observation of multiple environmental parameters in the Arctic Ocean, sea ice, and atmospheric interfaces. 'Director, Polar Oceanography Research Office, China Polar Research Center, Project Leader He Jianfeng said in an interview with reporters on the 23rd that by collecting long-term basic environmental data of sea-ice-air interface, the mechanism of interaction between Arctic sea ice and sea-ice-gas interaction can be realized.
As early as the beginning of the last century, Chinese researchers tried to collect data by means of sea ice buoys. Since 2008, the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences and other units have begun to deploy automatic observation equipment such as meteorological observations at the Arctic Ice Station. Since the summer Arctic sea ice has been melting. Automatic observation equipment often needs to choose a relatively complete sea ice with a certain thickness. Even so, there is still a greater risk of unmanned observation equipment in the Arctic. In the past, automatic observation equipment placed on Arctic ice floes was generally The survival period ranges from six months to one year.
He Jianfeng told reporters that after the site deployment work, the country has received real-time observation data from the Arctic scene through the comet. But he also said that this is only the first step in the development of the system. The next step will be to summarize relevant technologies and cloth. On the basis of experience, the unmanned ice station test prototype will be further optimized next year, and the engineering prototype will be designed and developed in the Arctic, and will be applied and promoted as soon as possible.
